Titlu Job: Director of Software Development

Stein & Partner is searching for a Director of Software Development to join our client's R&D Department in Bucharest. The employer is an international ad-tech company (digital advertising, proprietary technology).

Main Accountabilities

  • Being in charge with the direct strategic development, management and deployment of software development resources in a hybrid dedicated / cloud Microsoft SQL / environment
  • Ensuring application design to manage and maintain data security and integrity
  • Helping communication upward, as well as throughout project teams
  • Utilizing practices of best-case packaged software release management
  • Leading software development department, ensuring a creative and solution-oriented atmosphere
  • Mentoring managers to implement best practices to motivate and organize their teams
  • Ensuring hiring bar, interviewing, and making hiring decisions
  • Improving software development best practices
  • Providing version control processes to assure consistency, quality and timeliness
  • Providing particular feedback to facilitate managers enhance their work
  • Guiding and providing input to all strategic and technical planning for entire software projects
  • Monitoring and providing input for evaluation and prioritizing change requests
  • Managing the software development team: coaching them, identifying opportunities for team training and skills advancement, evaluating performance

Professional Skills

  • University diploma in computer science, management information systems, or a related field
  • Leadership skills, ability to influence, train and mentor others, as well as to lead multiple teams
  • Tech savvy and capable to challenge the status quo
  • Strategic skills and sound decision making ability
  • Passionate and knowledgeable about code development, data, digital architecture
  • Logical and mathematical approach to handle a variety of software development projects
  • Previous senior experience in both developing and managing back-end applications in a Microsoft environment
  • Ability to find the right balance between perfect project planning and pragmatic problem-solving situation
  • Capacity to deeply understand product requirements, contribute to build specifications from functional and business perspective
  • Proven experience as project manager leading projects/initiatives and working with various methodologies (agile – scrum, hybrid, waterfall, etc) and with various software technologies
  • Scrum Master experience is a big plus
  • Ability to understand statistics, modelling algorithms and data driven solutions to problems in new domains
  • Ability to produce product documentation (technical and customer oriented)

Personality Profile

  • Highly analytical
  • Strong influential and communication skills, having the capacity to relate to and efficiently collaborate with different type of personalities
  • Excellent planning and organizational skills
  • Proactive and able to multitask
  • Open and creative
  • Hands-on and solution-oriented
  • Intelligent, upstanding and dynamic

Send your application to: alexandra.ene@steinandpartner.com